Lawn mower



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E. O. HUTS ELL LAWN MOWER Filed June 24, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Ernest QH S WITNESSES ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 1, 1927.

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ERNEST oLANnEE HUTSELL, ATHENS,TEN1*IESSEE, assrenon or ONE-HALE T0,,

CHARLES L. FOWLER, 0F .a'rnnns, TEnnEssEE.

awn MOWER;

Application filed June 24, 1925. Serial No. 39,350.

Thisinvention relates to an improved lawn mower having reciprocatlng cutters mounted and guided on a finger bar, and driven by the ground wheels as the'mower is pushed over i it '5 the ground.

Thefinvention has for its object to provide at lawn mower of this gtype which is simple in its construction, easy {to operate,

and which has improved means for support- I wing and guiding the cutters, and for driving the same. a r

The invention consists further in various improved details of construction and combinations of elements, the nature and pur- 15 pose ofwhich will be more particularly Vex-a plained in connection with the accompanying drawin embodiment thereof. 1

In the drawings: a

a Figure 1 isa plan view of a lawn mower constructed in accordance wlththe invention.

Figure2 is afront elevation thereof. 7 1 1 Figure 3 is a sectionalview taken substantially on the'lineof Figure 2, a portion of the, fingerfbar and upperknife bar 'beingbroken away. F gure 4-is' a side tion. o

a it Figure 5' is a vertical longitudinal section 30 takensubstantially on the line 55of Figure 2. v V a a Figure 6 is a vertical sectlontaken on the line 66 of Figure 2. v 1

The lawn mower, which constitutes the asnsubject matter of the invention is provlded Twith twoground wheels 10 connected in the usual manner to the ends of a shaft oraxle 11, which is journaled in a yoke 12 secured to a rearwardly and upwardly extending beam 13 bymeans of whichthe mower is pushed overthe ground. A beveled gear 14 issecured-to the axle 11, and meshes with a pinion15,secured tothe rear end of a shaft- 16 rotatably mounted in a bearing l'i' on a transverse bar 18; the ends of wh ch gs which illustrate'the preferred elevation of the invenrespectively, of thefinger,

guide plates 26 are securedtoithe respective brackets 21, and extend over-the knifevbar 24, and are provided with transversechan nels 27 in which the knife b ar 24 is guided in its reciprocation. Theforward ends. of

the arms 22 are provided with similar channels28 for guid ng the lower knife baro25. Screws 29, mounted in brackets 30, assist .in

v holding the arms 26 in proper relation to the finger bar 23 and the arms 22. a g The finger bar 23 is thin and flat on both sides, and is formed with forwardly projecting integral fingers 131 constitutingledger blades, the upper and lower faces ofwhi'ch cooperate with the knife sections 32 secured to the respective knife bars 24 and j Upstanding bracket arms 33 are secu'red a guide bar 34 having forwardly projectingv cars 35 in which two horizontal rods 36'and i 37 are supported forvreciprocation. The front rod 36 projects laterally 'fromrone side of the mower, andhas a depending arm :38 rigidly secured to its outer :end by a clamping member 39 or thelike. ,The rear rod 37 projects laterally from theother side of the mower, and has a similarde'pending arm 41 secured to its outer end by a clamping member 42. The upper knife bar 24 has 1 a clip 40 secured near the end thereof. which is provided with a slot forreceiving. the lower end of the ar1n-38,:while at the other side of the mower the lower knife bar 25 has a rearwardly projectingear 40 secured thereto, which is provided with a slot forreceiving'thelower endof the arm 41."! The rods 36 and 37 are parallel to the knife bars,

and since the depending arms38 and, 41 are rigidly secured to therespective IOClS,t-l1

knife bars are rcciprocated simultaneously in opposite directions to the same extent-that the rods 36 and 37 are re-ciprocated cation of the rods .86 and 37 and th'eflcorresponding knife bars, two pitmen 43 are pivotally connected at their outer ends, as at 44, to the respective arms 38 and 41. The inner. ends of these pitmen are pivotally connected respectively to the crank pins 45 and 46 of a double crank 47 formed on the front end of the shaft 16. As the lawn mower is pushed forwardly over the ground,- there fore, the traction of the wheels 10 rotates the sale 11 and the beveled i4 secured to the transverse bar 18, andrigidly support For the purpose of efleo'tingthe reciprothereto, and this, in turn, through. the medium of the pinion 15, rotates the crank shaft 16 to reciprocate the knife bars.

In-order to gagethe height of the out, it is preferred to support the front end of the frame by means of a roller 48, which is located midway between the sides of the frame and rotatably supported in hearings 49 secured to the brackets 30.

From the foregoing description, it will he not'ed'thatthe knife bars are positively and means-of the arms 38 and 41' and the recipr'ocably mounted rods 36 and 37, so thatthere -ds -n0 tendency of the knife bars tobind or stick-in" the channels in which -they are 'mounted. The manner in which the fingers orledgerbladesfil are formed, and the disposition of the cutters on the upper and "2 lower faces"thereof, results ina clean and uniform cutting of the grass. Tall grass may beeut aS well as short grass, and the -k'ni fe' bars extend lat'erallyin' front ofand beyond the wheels,so that there is no possi- "bility-of'treading-the-grass into the ground 'before it is cut. The cutters arereciprocated simultaneously'inopposite directions, so thatthey' mower is evenly balanced with very "little-vibration.

'Whi'le I have shown and described the in- =-vention in detail in what is at present the preferred embodiment thereof, it is to be noted"thatvarious modifications may be linade in the detailed construction and arrangementof-the various elements without any material departure from the salient fea- 'tures 'offthe invention. It-is'my purpose, therefore, to include all such modifications *within' the soopeof the appended claims.

What is claimedis: "1. In a law1r'1nower','tlie combination of a frame, two knife 'bars 'reciprocably mounted transversely ofthe frame, two rods mounted "aboveand parallel to the respective knife -bars,' guides in which the rods are recipro- 'cable,'-anxarm rigidly secured to each rod and depending therefrom, said knife bars 'having slots in which the lower ends of -the :respectivearms are"fitted, a substantially horizontal crank shaft disposed midway be- :tweenthesides of the frame above said knife barsiand below said'rods and having oppositely disposed crank pins, pitmen connect "ing therespective crank pins to the intermediateportions of the respective arms, and

knife means for rotating the crank shaft to recipfinger bar-and parallel thereto, means for accurately guided in their reciprocation by actuating said rods, and means secured to the respective rods and engagmg'the respective'knife bars to reciprocate the latter.

3. In a lawn mower, the combination of a frame, a finger bar mounted transversely thereof, two knife bars guided for reciprocation on the-finger bar and cooperating therewith, two rods mounted above andparallel positely disposed crank pins'below the 'rods and above the knife bars, pitmen connecting the respective crank'pins to the intermediate portions of the respective depending arms, and'means for rotating the crankshaft to reciprocatethe knife bars.

4. In a-lawn'mower, the combination of a frame, a finger bar supported transversely of the frame and consisting-of a thin flat strip "with --integral, forwardly-projeating fingers constituting ledger blades, two knife bars guidedfor' reciprocation respectively on the upper and lower faces of the finger bar, two rods located above and parallel to the finger bar,-guides in which the rods are reciprocable, an arm secured to each rod and depending therefrom,the lower ends of said arms being engaged withthe respective knife bars, a longitudinally disposed shaft located between'the knife bars and the rods and having a-double crank with oppositely disposed crank pins, pitmen connecting the crank pins to "the intermediate portions of the respective depending arms, and means for driving said crankshaft to reciprocatethe ars.

In testimony, that I claim the'forgomg as my own, I have hereto affixed mysignature.

ERNEST OLANDER HUTSELL.

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